Facts don’t change because they hurt your feelings.”
–Zachary McCrae (Frontier Fury)
“The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.”
“The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.”
–Isaiah 40:8 (NKJV)
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“Hold to God’s unchanging hand,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand;
Build your hopes on things eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.”
–Jennie Bain Wilson
Have you ever had someone break a promise to you? It’s not a pleasant experience and it leaves you wondering if you can trust them again. What would it be like if God broke His promises? What if He would decide that only those with B+ blood are fit for the Kingdom? It is comforting that we serve a God who does not change. He is not a God, who upon a whim decides this or that. Arthur Pink said it this way, “He cannot change for the better, for He is already perfect; and being perfect, He cannot change for the worse.”
When we begin to think of God, as we have done the past three weeks, in His attributes it is mind-boggling. He is truly wonderful in the literal meaning of the word. He is mysterious and beyond our comprehension, and therefore, worthy only of our praise and worship. I can almost hear His voice declaring from heaven, “I am the Lord, I change not!” (Malachi 3:6, NKJV)
Immutable: one of those words that almost defies description because we cannot totally fathom the idea. “God is perpetually the same: subject to no change in His being, attributes, or determinations.” (Pink) How could He change? What would He change into? What would He become? Pink continues, “Because God has no beginning and no ending, He can know no change. He is everlasting.” His nature and being are infinite. All that He is today, He has ever been, and ever will be.
God’s character does not change. He never becomes less truthful, or merciful, or just, or good. James declares, “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turing.” (1:17, NKJV). The RSV translates it this way, “…with whom there is no variation of shadow due to change.”
It is vital that we know and realize that God’s truth does not change. Today there is a very real attack on the Word of God, both the written word and the living word–Jesus. Culture, Wokeness, tolerance, or any other ism or ideology will not, cannot change the truth of God’s truth. Truth, humanistic truth, is unstable, and is relative, subject to change. Oh, rejoice that God’s truth is forever and settled. He does not conjure up new truth or compromise old, established truth. “No circumstances prompt Him to recall them; no changes in His own thinking require Him to amend them.” (J.I. Packer) Truth is settled! The Prophet Isaiah wrote, “The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.” (40:8, NKJV) All His commands are true and are established forever (i.e., Psalm 119:151-152). Jesus said, that “the Scripture cannot be broken.” (10:35, NKJV)
“Time is filled with swift transition,
Naught of earth unmoved can stand,
Build your hopes on things eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.”
—————————————–
“Hold to God’s unchanging hand,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand;
Build your hopes on things eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.”
–Jennie Bain Wilson
Have you ever had someone break a promise to you? It’s not a pleasant experience and it leaves you wondering if you can trust them again. What would it be like if God broke His promises? What if He would decide that only those with B+ blood are fit for the Kingdom? It is comforting that we serve a God who does not change. He is not a God, who upon a whim decides this or that. Arthur Pink said it this way, “He cannot change for the better, for He is already perfect; and being perfect, He cannot change for the worse.”
When we begin to think of God, as we have done the past three weeks, in His attributes it is mind-boggling. He is truly wonderful in the literal meaning of the word. He is mysterious and beyond our comprehension, and therefore, worthy only of our praise and worship. I can almost hear His voice declaring from heaven, “I am the Lord, I change not!” (Malachi 3:6, NKJV)
Immutable: one of those words that almost defies description because we cannot totally fathom the idea. “God is perpetually the same: subject to no change in His being, attributes, or determinations.” (Pink) How could He change? What would He change into? What would He become? Pink continues, “Because God has no beginning and no ending, He can know no change. He is everlasting.” His nature and being are infinite. All that He is today, He has ever been, and ever will be.
God’s character does not change. He never becomes less truthful, or merciful, or just, or good. James declares, “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turing.” (1:17, NKJV). The RSV translates it this way, “…with whom there is no variation of shadow due to change.”
It is vital that we know and realize that God’s truth does not change. Today there is a very real attack on the Word of God, both the written word and the living word–Jesus. Culture, Wokeness, tolerance, or any other ism or ideology will not, cannot change the truth of God’s truth. Truth, humanistic truth, is unstable, and is relative, subject to change. Oh, rejoice that God’s truth is forever and settled. He does not conjure up new truth or compromise old, established truth. “No circumstances prompt Him to recall them; no changes in His own thinking require Him to amend them.” (J.I. Packer) Truth is settled! The Prophet Isaiah wrote, “The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.” (40:8, NKJV) All His commands are true and are established forever (i.e., Psalm 119:151-152). Jesus said, that “the Scripture cannot be broken.” (10:35, NKJV)
“Time is filled with swift transition,
Naught of earth unmoved can stand,
Build your hopes on things eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.”